April 2019

Did you know that cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death for men and women in the United States? According to the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention, about 610,000 people die of heart disease in the United States each year....

Change is a certainty of life. As we age, interests and preferences evolve, careers experience ups and downs, and relationships begin and end. Change is typically slow enough that we can manage the subtle ebbs and flows with coping mechanisms....

I have seen many instances in which the ideas and methods of quality and process improvement were used to prevent problems in the workplace. I also realized the tools used by quality professionals could be more widely applied....

While behaviorism has been largely abandoned in psychology, it continues to be the basis of much of the strategy in business. Individuals and groups are viewed as machines that can be adjusted simply by changing the contingencies....